IP Voice 2008 (http://www.ipvoice2008.com/eng/index2.php) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on March 5th to 6th, 2008, and with the main audience of this conference being targeted to enterprise customers and communication carriers.

There have been a number of Open Software Phone projects that have happened in the past year and which continue to move forward: more>>

Unlike a lot of the events that I discuss in my Blog, the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is a "by invitation only" event with a twist. Normally for "invitation only events", the potential attendee sits by the phone with their prom clothes on, waiting for the call that may or may not come. more>>

After speaking at the Florida Linux Show on February 11th, I return ever-so-briefly to the New England area to re-pack my bags and head for Sao Paulo, Brazil to attend Campus Party (February 11th to 17th, 2008). more>>

Reports - Andreas Tille posted the DebianMed Sprint report, detailing the fifth sprint
collaboration between the DebianMed team, BioLinux, developers, and users. The
event was a great showcase for the Blends concept which also attracted new team
members. Several packages were uploaded and accepted immediately at the sprint,
thanks to the ftpmaster team, which meant work could continue on chains of
dependencies without interruption. More reports
and information about the work by M. Crusoe on screed, S. Steinbiss on barrnap,
Tim Booth on khmer, and other contributors is available on the DebianMed 2015 Sprint Wiki.

The newsletter for the Debian community - Debian LTS work continues with Raphaël Hertzog working 14.5 hours on the
project. His highlights include a helper script to generate emails to package
maintainers. Michael Banck worked under sponsorship to keep PostgreSQL updated for LTS, Ben Hutchings uploaded packages for cups and sudo, and Thorsten Alteholz
worked 14.5 hours uploading new versions of php5, krb5, and e2fsprogs.

A delegation for the Trademark Team - We welcome the announcement of an official delegation for the Trademark team.
The team worked previously in an unofficial capacity as volunteers under the DPL
and were responsible for Debian trademark requests and for reporting violations.
Recently the team has completed the process of registering Debian's swirl in
the U.S. They are now moving forward to international marks. Although the team
will still work closely with the Debian Project Leader and Software in the
Public Interest, the delegation means the team now functions on its own in its
responsibility for trademark use requests, new registrations, updates, and
extensions of Debian trademarks.